Conflict Provention as a Political System (2001)

ForConflict provention as a political system those of us who identify with the dispute or conflictConflict fields, and their theories and practices, the pressing question is: ‘Where do we go from hereWhere do we go from here?’ I wish to argue that the future of problem-solving conflict resolutionProblem-solving conflict resolution, perhaps unlike dispute settlementDispute settlement, lies not in remaining just an interactive processProcess, but in establishing the basis of an alternative to the adversarial procedures in the legal and political systems that WesternWestern societies have inherited and promoted.